Raphael Kellman, MD
Age Management
For years, Jennifer, 55, suffered from fatigue and back pain. She had a constant sore throat, but showed no other symptoms of a cold.
Jennifer, a Franklin Lakes, N.J. resident, went from doctor to doctor with little to no help in addressing the root cause of her problems. Some of them prescribed antidepressants. But Jennifer knew something was physically wrong with her.
She kept reading and searching. She suspected a thyroid problem, but doctors kept telling her that her thyroid levels were fine.
“My body was pretty much screaming at me that there was something wrong,” Jennifer said. “I was at a cross roads: Do I want something to take away the pain or do I want to fix the problem.”
That’s when she then found Dr. Kellman through an internet search. Dr. Kellman confirmed what Jennifer already knew about her thyroid. But he didn’t stop there, she said.
He checked her vitamin levels. He asked her a ton of questions. And he listened to what Jennifer was saying. Turns out Jennifer had a number of severe vitamin deficiencies, despite a history of taking vitamin supplements since her youth.
“Vitamin C didn’t even show up on the tests,” she said.
She lacked Vitamin D, B-12 to go along with the Vitamin C deficiency, which led to adrenal fatigue.
Dr. Kellman put Jennifer on a number supplements and told her to take two and three times the dosage of vitamins she was already taking. When her sore throat persisted, Dr. Kellman suggested a natural thyroid supplement. Within three days of starting to take that supplement, the sore throat was gone.
“That to me was an indication of someone who is really listening to me, and also who is willing to take a different course of action based on what I was telling him,” Jennifer said.
A year after Jennifer started seeing Dr. Kellman, she feels great. She has lost 10 pounds, has her energy back and is pain free.
When Jennifer’s 20-year-old daughter started showing similar symptoms to the ones she had suffered through, she took her to see Dr. Kellman right away. He found that Jennifer’s daughter also had thyroid and adrenal issues, she said.
Today, Jennifer says she feels fortunate to have found Dr. Kellman. He treats the whole picture, the whole person as opposed to trying to fix just one aspect of your pain. He really does listen to what your symptom are as opposed to just reading a test, she said.
Seeing Dr. Kellman also taught Jennifer an important lesson.
“I didn’t have to continue to feel this way,” Jennifer said. “Just because you hit a certain age doesn’t mean you have to feel aches, pain and fatigue all the time.”
The staff is wonderfully attentive and kind.
